Prof. Baker Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Headshot, Robert Baker

Professor Robert Baker, founder and director emeritus of the Bioethics Program, has been honored with the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities’ (ASBH) Lifetime Achievement Award.  After being raised in a Bronx housing project by a widowed mother, Baker earned a BA in social science from City College of New York, a PhD in philosophy from the University of Minnesota, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Albany Medical College. He co-founded an online/onsite bioethics masters’ program, founded ASBH’s affinity group on the history of medical ethics, and served on ASBH committees that developed its code of ethics. A four-time National Endowment for the Humanities awardee and a Hastings Center Fellow, Baker has authored or coauthored over 150 articles and a dozen books including, the American Medical Ethics Revolution, The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics, Before Bioethics, and Making Modern Medical Ethics.  Congratulations Professor Baker.

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